Wagon-tongue hound.



PATENTED' JAN. 22, 1907.

C. P. SMITH. WAGON TONGUE HOUND. P PLIOATION FILED4 JULYla, 190s.

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yCHRISTIAN P. SMITH, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

WAGON-TONGUE HOUND.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented J' an. 22, 1907.

Application filed July 13, 1906. Serial No. 326,068.

factured by the use of a die-press,

lrigid material, such as sheet metal.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,'Figure 1 is an inverted view of the hound and tongue of a wagon associated with my improved connecting member. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the connecting member is made, and Fig. 3 is a perspective viewiof the member detached.

In carrying out the invention I make thev connecting member from very light but The blank when first cut has the form shown in Fig. v2, wherein one end 5 is approximately V-shaped, with the pointed or apex portion thereof merging into van elongated neck 6, that has straight parallel side edges 7 7, which extend up to the diverging side edges 8 8 of the upper V-shaped portion. Ihen this blank is cut, the upper V-shaped portion thereof is also formed with two incisions along the lines 9 9, the said incisions extend ing` parallel with the diverging edges S and then transversely of the blank and parallel with the upper edge thereof, so as to form wing members 1() andlO.

The blank is the second time operated upon by a die to bend the side edges 7 and 8 thereof upwardly and at right angles to the body portion of the blank, forming upstanding marginal iianges 11, each of which is provided with a plurality of apertures 12, which are adapted to be pierced by a pivot-bolt 13, that' passes through the front ends of the hounds 14,as shown in Fig. 1. Simultaneously with the bending of the flanges 11 the wing members 1() are also bent upwardly to stand at right angles to the blank and in vertical alinement with the flanges 11 of the neck portion 6 of the blank,being disposed parallel with the longitudinal axis of the blank, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby forming a continuous socket longitudinally through the blank t`o receive the end of the tongue memand nuts 16, nassing through apertures 17 in lthe blank, the ends of said tongue fitting between the flanges of the neck portion and also between the wings 10, as shown in Fig. 1.

The dotted lines in Fig. 2 indicate the lines on which the blank is bent to form the clip.

The wings 10 are also provided with a plurality of apertures 18, which aline with the apertures 12 in the flange 11, so that by mounting the pivot-bolt 13 in any one of the apertures 12 and 1 8 the hounds may be adjusted relatively to the tongue and to the connecting member.

From the description thus far given it will be understood that the tongue 15 is permanently attached to the connecting member by means of bolts and nut members 16 but the connecting member may be detachably and adjustably connected with the hound by virtue of the pivot-bolt 13 and the plurality of openings 12 and 1S, and alsothat when the parts are assembled, as shown in Fig. 1, the tongue, with the connecting member, may swing vertically between the hounds to conform to the general movement of the vehicle over the road. It will also be seen that my improved connecting member or clip may be manufactured at considerably small expense and very rapidly from sheet metal by the use of a die-press and that they may be marketed as a complete article of manufacture independent of the vehicle, inasmuch as they may be applied to any wagon of the type embodying hounds and tongues. l

'Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A connecting member of the class described having upstanding flanges extending entirely along its side edges, and also having upstanding wings inclosed by the side flanges, said iianges land said wings being 'struck up from the blank of which the member is constructed.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a connecting member for hounds and tongues of vehicles embodying a sheet-metal blank having its side edges bent. at right angles to the body portion of the blank and extending the entire length thereof and a pair of wing members struck up from the body of the blank.

3. The combination withhounds, and the tongue of a vehicle, of a connecting member having a V-shaped portion adapted to lit be- IOO IIO

tween the free ends ofthe hounds and also a narrow neck portion projecting beyond the end of tlie hound, the side edges of the `V- sliaped portion and the neck portion being 5 provided with upstanding flanges, said flanges having a plurality of apertures, said member also liaving a pair of upstanding wings struck from the V-shaped end of the blank and disposed in alinement with the'flanges of the io neck portion thereof, the end of the tongue being adapted to t between the Wings and also between the flanges of tlie neck portion of the blank, and a pivot extending through tlie hounds and apertures in the iangesI substantially as specified. I5 In testimony whereof I aIiX my signature inpresence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

CHRISTIAN l. SMITH.

Witnesses: e

GEORGE OLrsGH7 G. M. COLE 

